Want the benefits that coaching delivers but don’t have access to a live coach? Try virtual coaching!
It takes more than awareness and training to successfully acquire and use the full set of skills critical to workplace success. To fully develop needed skills, individuals must be committed to continuous learning and be able to put what they learn into practice. The best way to do that is with ongoing reinforcement and support – the kind typically provided by great coaches!
Ideally, everyone should have a personal and professional manager or coach to help them put what’s learned into practice — and to do this in the most effective and efficient way. Some do. High-level, well-paid individuals are hiring personal coaches, and corporations are training and encouraging managers to provide critical coaching support. But the need for more coaches — and less expensive ways to provide needed coaching to even larger groups of people — remains and grows stronger by the day!
Virtual coaching fills this critical gap because it operates as an effective — and affordable — generic coach. It is ready and able to offer advice, support, and development ideas for any employee at any time — 24 hours a day — whenever an employee needs it.
Virtual coaching is not a replacement for the human touch, but it is an effective adjunct to “live” coaching that can be beneficial for everyone in the organization because it provides another sound perspective at the same time it reinforces and strengthens good, solid ideas provided elsewhere. It makes it possible to deliver a baseline of coaching support to those who have poor or marginal managers and leaders. And it also serves as a worthwhile supplement to those who have access to excellent coaching and mentoring. These individuals can use their virtual coach when time is tight or their mentor or manager is unavailable.
Bottom line:
Having access to a virtual coach – a 24/7 performance support tool – is an ideal way to insure that people are able to realize their commitment to continual learning, development, and improvement — efficiently and effectively!